Re: [msmtp-users] Re: Wrapper for msmtp. Writes a mail to procmail on failure

[Martin Lambers <marlam@...23...>]

On Wed, 27. Jul 2005, 16:07:53 +0530, Ligesh wrote:
> I think you can have a system like the php program I have sent,
> inside msmtp itslef. You can just call whatever is their mail-sorting
> agent with a message and the error message. Tracking the log files is
> very difficult task, especially if you are sending 50-60 mails every
> day. Just have a configuration that will allow users to have a
> program that will called in case of error (Most likely procmail).
> 
> If you have that you can confidently set the send-mail-wait option in
> mutt to -1, and the mutt will return instantly after executing msmtp.
> You don't need to bother whether the mail sent was successful or not,
> since you will get a neat message in your error-mesage mbox if mail
> sending fails.

This functionality may be a little bit too much for msmtp. It may be
better to use a real MTA instead.

Martin